Re: How to "tell" a package so extent an environment variable?

[Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>]

Am 11.12.2016 um 18:41 schrieb Marius Bakke:
> If PHP can read multiple INI files (which the variable name leads me to

Yes, PHP can read multiple INI files.

> (define-public php
> [...]
>     (native-search-paths
>      (list (search-path-specification
>             (variable "PHP_INI_SCAN_DIR")
>             ;; This might not be the best place to add them.
>             (files '("php/ini")))))
>
> And then, for extensions, they should install an INI file that enables
> them to $out/php/ini. When users install PHP, PHP_INI_SCAN_DIR will be
> pointed towards the users' .guix-profile/php/ini directory.

I assume, the INI files of all extension packages will be linked into
.guix-profile/php/ini. Right? So this would work.

But when building he extension, I'd expect PHP_INI_SCAN_DIR to be set in
/var/tmp/guix-build-….drv-0/environment-variables. But it isn't there.
(For building I would need the header files, not the .ini files, or
course. But this should work the same, shouldn't it?)

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Hartmut Goebel

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